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The accidental hermit is changing
The main problem for me with Borderline personality disorder is that constant... read more
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The accidental hermit is changing
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The main problem for me with Borderline personality disorder is that constant flow of negative thoughts and feelings that run through my mind; the inability to form and maintain healthy relationships on all levels personal, professional and on a family …
Ashamed
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Our green and pleasant land blighted by hate, Little men with little island mentality – Make war against democracy, The weak harnessed to the yoke of injustice – As the world points fingers. History starts to repeat And the …
Posted in Free Verse Poems:, POEMS, Political
Tagged Anxiety, Dark thoughts, Depression, Dystopia, Political, thoughts, Todays World
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When did it change?
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When did it change? Was it always this way? Was kindness a delusion? Has my psychosis heal? Was the hate always present? Did it hang like shadows? Kept away by medicated realties. Was its voice muffled by drugs? Was vision …
Posted in BPD- poems, POEMS
Tagged Anger, Anxiety, Borderline personality, Dark thoughts, Depression, Donald Trump, Dystopia, Fears, Negative feelings, Todays World
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The Shadows Climb Walls
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Shadows climb walls, As memories infest the contemporaneous, The past now weaponised! The future poisoned. The present encaged Feelings bounce like rubber balls, Times stands still. Trapped between the seconds. I dance in darkness hiding from the light. But soon …
Posted in BPD- poems, POEMS
Tagged Anxiety, behavior, Borderline personality, Dark thoughts, Dystopia, Fears, feeling, Negative feelings, thoughts
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The Now and Then
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I was wild like the wind, I ran and jumped and cried with pain and joy, I knew what love and laughter was, I was many, the multitude and whole But time battered me, and I changed, The skin of …
Posted in BPD- poems, POEMS
Tagged Anger, Anxiety, Borderline personality, Dark thoughts, Depression, Dystopia, Negative feelings, Self Image
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Love on the borderline
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Why would you love a thing like me? Untrusting with reason but you I give trusts keep, My screams of pain the violent mood, The childish acts… Your leave soon. I burden you with others sins, A battle you …
Posted in BPD- poems, POEMS
Tagged Anger, Anxiety, Borderline personality, Dark thoughts, Dystopia, Fears, feeling, Love, Negative feelings, Self Image
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Confused and bemused
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Racist bigot with funny hair, Betrayed wife with axe to grind, Man of peace with hope at his side. Choice of three! You decide! The devil filled with bile, The sorceress forked tongued whore of Revelation, The soft …
Posted in Generic poems, POEMS, Political
Tagged Anxiety, Bernie Sanders, Dark thoughts, Depression, Donald Trump, Dystopia, Negative feelings, Todays World
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Just Borderline
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So close I can smell my dreams, A feast of desires and hopes, The smorgasbord of possibilities, But I starve… Mental illness traps me, Torturing me with medicated hopes, Tormenting me with chats of repeating pasts, But I think …
Posted in BPD- poems, POEMS
Tagged Anger, Anxiety, behavior, Borderline personality, Dark thoughts, Depression, Dystopia, Fears, feeling, Self Image, thoughts
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When the mask slips and falls away
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Am I who they see, The persona or the real me, In the mirror I do look, Can’t find the thing they took, Lost and lone a masked man, Confused alone without a plan, I have no …
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Tagged Anxiety, behavior, Borderline personality, Dark thoughts, Depression, Fears, feeling, Negative feelings, Self Image
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A World Goes Mad
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Dark rolling clouds cover the sky, Silence punctuated with screams of disbelief, Small pockets of destructions litter the landscape, Blood runs on to the streets of the civilised, The distorted disease blinds the truth, Madmen dance in sand and …
Posted in Generic poems, POEMS
Tagged Anxiety, Dark thoughts, Dystopia, Imagist poem, Title as Poem Catalyst, Todays World, visual peom, War
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